Amygdala and psychopathy

• Psychopathy and why they are likely to become criminals

  Anti-social personality disorder

  affection-less, lack of empathy, impulsive

  amygdala dysfunction is a central deficit In psychopathy

  orbit of frontal cortex is also to play. helps to realise the differences from right or wrong
• Key study - Glenn et al

  17 participants with varying degrees of psychopathy

  all had FMRI scans whilst making moral judgements of moral dilemmas

  they found an association between psychopathy and reduced amygdala activity during a deduction making task